Ultimate Geek Accessories – Time Machines

Are you still telling the time via a standard analogue or digital clock?

Perhaps its time to look for something a little more modern in its approach to watching the seconds, minutes and hours of your life drift into the past.

With the new cool being distinctly geek in style, Thoughts from the Sidelines looks at a few time keeping devices that are not only a little out of the ordinary but that are bound to work to underline your geek status as well as being great conversational pieces.

Ibiza Ride Watch

£129

With its distinct retro styling and multiple LED display the Ibiza Ride offers you a distinct style that lets people know that you’re a geek and proud of it – after all, its no longer fashionable to for geeks to stay in the closet, and this watch will ensure that you “come out” with style.

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TokyoFlash Retrofit

£70

Fresh from Tokyo, the TokyoFlash Retrofit fits neatly into the category of things that ought not to be cool but somehow just are. Available in Gunmetal, silver and gold and with an option of blue, green or red (on the gold version) LEDs this watch looks like its come straight from the set of the original StarTrek. Shouting “Beam me up” into this watch would appear to be almost obligatory.

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TIX LED Clock

$49.99

A wall mounted or table clock that can be displayed horizontally or vertically, this is bound to grace any discerning geek’s room. The TIX displays the time via an abstract series of LEDs that can, apparently, be read in a host of differing ways – though quite how it all works wholly eludes me. Featuring three levels of brightness, the TIX is available in silver or black and can be set to update every second, every four seconds or every minute.

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Scope Wrist Watch

£70

Another watch from the fantastic TokyoFlash site, the Scope shows you your exact position in time via a scope rather than numbers or hands, though reading the time with this device may take a while to learn. According to the site “Reading the time is simple. The vertical line indicates the Hour & the horizontal is for Minutes.
Minutes on the main screen are in groups of 5 (5, 10, 15, 20, 25 etc) then add the number of Red LED’s shown on the right. So 25 + 2 = 27 minutes.” Have you got that?

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Binary Wrist Watch

£54.99

If you can read binary then this is the watch for you. Distinctly modern and yet curiously retro in style, the Binary Watch displays the time via a series of ice blue LEDs with the upper row displaying hours (8-4-2-1) and the lower row displaying minutes (32-16-8-4-1). Finished with a leather strap the watch is water resistant to 90 feet.

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Nobby the Voice Recognition Clock

£17.99

If you want to know the time, you’re going to have to ask for it with the Nobby Voice Recognition Clock which recognises six preset questions and which, according to the site, will respond with a variety of cheeky answers. Not particularly geekish, but headed in the right direction.

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Aluminium Box Daylight Projection Clock

£29.99

Looking like the cross between a safe and a computer, the Aluminium Box Daylight Projection Clock will beam up to a 4 foot image of the time on walls even in daylight conditions courtesy of its high powered halogen bulb. One of many projection clocks available, but the styling of this unit is particularly distinctive.

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Pix Sport LED Pedometer Clock

£19.99

Small enough to be attached to a key chain, this digital key fob clock is weather proof and functions not only as a time-piece but as a pedometer and a stopwatch and it can also display your own messages as well as offer a host of decorative patterns including one that changes according to motion – which is great for the clubbers amongst you.

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